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Book review: The Elsewhereans by Jeet Thayil

Tracing life`s trajectories Jeet Thayil`s new book begins and ends by the Muvattupuzha river. And so, let us go then, you and I, to that riverside, to meet Ammu who has an ancestral home there, Anniethottam. Let us meet George, the man Ammu weds, let us attend their hesitant courtship, their wedding where Gramsci`s theory…

Book review: Names of the Women by Jeet Thayil

Names of the Women by Jeet Thayil, Jonathan Cape, Penguin Random House UK. Thayil`s book is an interesting round-up of the forgotten women who formed the cohort that marched up the Mount of Calvary with the Christ and later, sat on vigil under the Cross he was nailed to, long after his disciples had fled…